High potentialities are rarely encountered in the sons of honest, intelligent, hard-working men who have had ill luck in their careers, who have failed in business or have muddled along all their lives in inferior positions.
32.
This warning persists to modern times; it has been questioned by folklorist Bob Curran whether the ill luck of the De Lorean Motor Company was associated with the destruction of a fairy thorn to make way for a production facility.
33.
Her limping walk during the attack gives Norman a clue to the person responsible for his ill luck : university secretary Flora Carr ( Margaret Johnston ), the wife of Lindsay whose career had stalled in favour of Norman's.
34.
The novel remarks about sorcery done by a namboothiripad of Akavoor family by evoking protection on his armor shield by the incantation of seventy million Dhanwantharam, a set of hymns offered to Dhanvantari in order to safeguard from any ill luck.
35.
Marian worries that she has " destroyed, wantonly and forever, everything that was good and happy in her life, " while Edward berates himself for bringing " ill luck and doom " to everyone around him.
36.
Lady Xu predicted ill luck and advised her husband to postpone the meeting, but Sun Yi wanted to settle the meeting quickly because the Chiefs had been waiting for some time since they arrived, so he hosted a banquet for them.
37.
By the time she moved to Glasgow, traveling alone at the age of eleven, she was mobbed by people wanting to discover if witchcraft was the cause of their ill luck, given word already reached the city before her arrival.
38.
At one point they have the ill luck to blunder into Hugh's aunt and uncle, and escape by having Hugh switch clothes with Nicky while another company member, Jasper Nye, pretends to be ill with the sweating-sickness.
39.
He wants to help Mma Ramotswe, his mentor, with detective work, and when superstitious fears disturb staff at the Mokolodi Nature Reserve, it is he who discovers the cause : an injured ground-hornbill, believed to bring ill luck.
40.
The play ends with a general reconciliation; the two younger Harding brothers, and Goodwin and Foster too, have all been reduced to beggary by loose living and ill luck & mdash; but the generous and forgiving Philip Harding offers to relieve their wants.
